Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.